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1 This is what the LORD said to Joel, son of Pethuel. 2 Listen to this, you leaders! Open your ears, all inhabitants of this land! Nothing like this has ever happened in your lifetime or in your ancestors' lifetime. 3 Tell your children about it. Have your children tell their children. Have your grandchildren tell their children. 4 What young locusts leave, mature locusts will eat. What mature locusts leave, adult locusts will eat. What adult locusts leave, grasshoppers will eat. 5 Wake up and cry, you drunks! Cry loudly, you wine drinkers! New wine has been taken away from you. 6 A strong nation attacked my land. It has too many soldiers to count. They have teeth like lions. They have fangs like grown lions. 7 They destroyed my grapevines. They ruined my fig trees. They stripped off what they could eat, threw the rest away, and left the branches bare. Joel 1:1-7, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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